Supervisor Benoit to Observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day

News Release

2011

Jan26

Supervisor Benoit to Observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day

PALM DESERT – Supervisor John J. Benoit will speak at a ceremony observing International
Holocaust Remembrance Day at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Holocaust Memorial in the Palm Desert Civic
Center Park (northeast corner of Fred Waring Drive and San Pablo Avenue).

“The Holocaust was one of the worst horrors perpetrated on an entire people,” said Supervisor
John J. Benoit. “The International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the memory of the
victims, survivors and liberators and ensures that we will never forget this horrible chapter in
human history.”

Jan. 27 marks the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi
death camp. Since 2005, the United Nations General Assembly has designated Jan. 27 as
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Thursday’s ceremony is presented by the President Gerald R. Ford Desert Chapter of the Mensch
Foundation International. For more information, please contact Steve Geiger, founder of the
local chapter, at (760) 416-3685.